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TIL Seth Rogen wrote the movie Superbad when he was 13 - 1995

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vPN4K TIL Paul McCartney reached out to victims of the Lac-Megantic train disaster and gave free tickets to his Quebec City show to survivors two weeks after the incident. 47 people were killed from the explosion and about 2,000 people were forced to flee the area
8a09a TIL that Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI attempted to escape from France but were recognized and caught in town of Varennes only 40 miles from the border with the Austrian Netherlands
NXn4b TIL: In the Zhou dynasty, it is believed the ruling class had excess "de" and so needed a large number of female partners or else the "DE" turns into malevolent "gui". They have special court ladies, the "nu shi" to ensure they sleep with women in the right order and amount.
9Y5B7 TIL about Navy Seaman Charles Jackson French who, after his ship the USS Gregory was sunk in WWII, swam for 6-8 hours towing a raft of 15 survivors through shark-infested waters. He later received the Navy Cross.
oPRo TIL After WWI, the German government deliberately made the value of their currency nearly worthless in order to pay back the Allies.